![[Spoilers#^DLS]] *Retcon: The Academy was a secretive organization, dedicated to preserving history. This was frowned upon, if not outright illegal, under the [[Sol Ascendancy]]. The were able to keep the organization going through political protection from interested parties, but were threatened with censure many times.* During the [[Ceaseless Fray]], [[Methuselan|Methuselans]] created the Academy to institutionalize record keeping. The [[Sol Ascendancy]] revised history as they saw fit during the war. Losses were erased, retreats were recorded as victories, and minor victories were listed as major turning points. %%Regardless of the interference of the government, the Academy managed to record day-to-day events, create archives of technology, catalog every colony, and keep a census of the non-combat population.%% The Academy persisted through the end of the war into the [[Second Golden Age]]. Their archives were largely maintained on [[Earth]], which had to be evacuated during the [[Stellar Decay]]. They moved them to an underground facility on Venus for a time before the Sol system was completely abandoned. The new capital of humanity was the final location of the Academy. This planet was lost during [[The Collapse]], and remains unknown to this day. The Methuselans who oversaw the Academy took part in the [[Great Confluence]], heading to the [[Core Worlds]] with the rest of humanity. However, the Academy itself was never reestablished.